Track every day's Product Hunt launches in a spreadsheet

Each day, the automation pulls new Product Hunt launches, checks their real website, and logs it all to Google Sheets.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each daily launch.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
Product HuntGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

Keeping tabs on what's launching on Product Hunt every day means checking the site yourself and copying details into a spreadsheet if you want a record. Product links often redirect somewhere else entirely, so you can't even trust the URL without checking it.

Who it fits

Indie hackers, product managers, and content teams tracking daily product launches for research or inspiration.

How it works

  1. Every day, the automation checks Product Hunt for that day's launches
  2. It pulls each product's name, tagline, description, and website
  3. It follows each website link to find where it actually leads
  4. All the details are added as a new row in your Google Sheet
What you get

Launches tracked for you to review

You get a running log of every day's Product Hunt launches, complete with real website links, organized neatly in a spreadsheet.

What you get

A Google Sheet with a running log of daily Product Hunt launches and their verified websites.

What you need

A Product Hunt API token and a Google Sheets account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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